found: Social Security Death index, Ancestry.com, viewed Feb. 10, 2012:(John Work; born June 15, 1901, died May 1967, last residence was Nashville, TN)

found: online biography of John Wesley Work III on "Now what a time" American Memory website, viewed Feb. 10, 2012:(John Wesley Work III; composer, educator, choral director, ethnomusicologist, taught in the Music Dept. at Fisk Univ., directed the Fisk Jubilee Singers from 1947-1956, collected African American folk songs and spirituals)